Louis Armstrong Thesis Statement

Jimi Hendrix is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer who is widely considered to be the most important electric guitarist in the history of music. Although Hendrix is known for his outstanding ability to play the guitar, he is also a very famous name in Blues music. He played the acoustic guitar but is known for his outstanding ability to play the electric guitar. With songs such as Red House, Here My Train A Comin', and Born Under a Bad Sign, Hendrix is considered to be in the Chicago category and quickly made his way into the history of Blues music.

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Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 4, 1901 to Mayanne and William Armstrong. His father abandoned his family during Louis' infancy. Louis spent the first years of his life with his grandmother, Josephine Armstrong. After age five, Louis moved back with his mother and his sister, "Mama Lucy." The family was forced to live in stark poverty. Louis got into some trouble when he was just 12 years old and was placed in the Waif's Home for Boys. It was there that he first received musical instruction and learned to play the coronet. He was released from the Waif's Home in June of 1914. He worked selling papers, unloading boats, and selling coal from a cart. Joe Oliver, one of the finest

Armstrong was born in New Orleans on August 4, 1901. He attended school until he was in the 5th grade, he stopped going to help support his family. To earn money, Armstrong sang on street corners, sold newspapers, and delivered coal. When Armstrong was eleven years old, he got in trouble for shooting a gun on New Year’s Eve to ring in the new year, 1912. He attended Colored Waifs Home in 1913 for eighteen months. During his time there, he learned how to play the bugle cornet, an instrument that is similar to the trumpet. After his time in Colored Waifs Home, he wanted to become a musician. At the start of Armstrong’s career, he married Daisy Parker. Armstrong’s mentor, King Oliver, had Armstrong move to Chicago to be in his band; in Oliver’s

From their time of birth, no two people could have seemed less likely to cross paths than Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong. Coming from radically different backgrounds, both musicians drew upon their influences to make music that revolutionized jazz, creating two separate legacies interwoven among each other in the peak of jazz popularity. Both Beiderbecke and Armstrong used their trumpets and their unique styles of playing, ranging from hot jazz to cool jazz, to fuel political, cultural, and social movements, inspiring individuals inside and outside of the jazz profession.

The year of 1912 Armstrong was arrested for firing his step fathers gun at a new years eve celebration. He was sent to Colored Waif’s Home for Boys. While he was there he received musical instruction on the Cornet and fell in love with music. Two years later in 1914 he was released and that’s when his dream of making music into a career really started.

Around the year 1651, the Mississippi river flowed down into the Gulf of Mexico and a bright star overhead came crashing down into the large, deep blue river and created a strange reaction. They created the first god of New Orleans and his name was Louis Armstrong. He was the god of music and the river. His instrument was the trumpet and he would play it often as he had no one else to converse with. He would sit next to the river all the time and waited for another star to collide with it.

Many people don’t think much about how people from the past have influenced their lives. For example, musicians from the past are often ignored by my generation, even though the music they listen to would never be the same without them. Louis Armstrong is a great example. He was an African American musician, born on August 4, 1901 and died in 1971. In his lifetime, he recorded many songs that are still played today with his trumpet solos and gravelly singing voice. He played music with a passion. He also differently than other musicians at the time, and as his popularity spiraled upward, his impact on music continued to grow. Even today, over a century after his birth, his musical pieces are still praised and he is still honored for being successful as an African American at a time when that was very difficult.

Success is a path way, full of mysterious wonders. Many strive to accomplish, while others wait for success to find them. Louis Armstrong’s life was similar to this. Armstrong strived and strived until he reached to a point in his life where he was comfortable with his fourth wife, Lucille Wilson. Armstrong is ultimately known as the creator of jazz and blues. He was awarded this title by using his talents when he was a young boy growing up in a rough neighborhood. Armstrong’s talent was a result of his childhood and young adult life. Growing up, Armstrong was exposed to music in his surroundings. Armstrong obtained this fantastic talent, therefore causing him to establish it in a well minded surrounding; creating his success and fame.

The extraordinary performances, recording, and lyrics of James Marshall Hendrix have made him impossible to forget. This American rock music guitarist made a legendary mark not only in the history of rock 'n' roll but also on the pop culture as a whole (Ross 32). With unique techniques never seen before and blatant sex-related performances on stage, he became one of the most influential music figures of the 60s (Kamin).

Louis Armstrong was born in one of the poorest sections in New Orleans, August 4, 1901. Louis a hard-working kid who helped his mother and sister by working every type of job there was, including going out on street corners at night to singing for coins. Slowly making money, Louis bought his first horn, a cornet. At age eleven Armstrong was sent to juvenile Jones Home for the colored waifs for firing a pistol on New Year’s Eve. While in jail Armstrong received his first formal music lesson from one of the friends he met their, he later played in Home’s brass band that was located in the same facility. Armstrong gained experience from the band. After a year and six month he was released. After being released he considered himself as a

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 - July 6, 1971) grew up in a poor neighborhood nicknamed “The Battlefield” in New Orleans, Louisiana. His mother, Mayann, was 15 years old when he was born and his father, Willie, abandoned them soon after. “Willie’s habit of devoting all his attention to his second family, and none to him, was always a source of great pain to Louis” (Bergreen 16). Mayann turned to prostitution and Armstrong was raised by his Grandmother. He dropped out of school in the fifth grade to help support the family by singing on street corners, selling newspapers, and delivering coal.

In music, Armstrong discovered the path to success, after a New Year's eve prank in 1913. He had taken his stepfathers .38 caliber pistol and six blanks and fired them into the air. Before he knew what was happening, a policeman had grabbed Little Louis by the arm. Off went Little Louis in the custody of the New Orleans police. The judge decided to send him to the Colored Waifs Home for boys to keep him out of trouble.

“Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no music left in them,”-Louis Armstrong, famous musician and entertainer (www.quotationof.com). The 1920s was a prosperous and successful decade. There was a booming economy, a new time of the Jazz Age with Louis Armstrong, the time of superior motion picture with sound, and unfortunately, the devastating crash of the stock market. Overall, the 1920s was incredibly action-packed and most certainly important to America’s history.

Armstrong’s horrible life style finally started to catch up to him in in 1959 when he had a heart attack; fortunately the heart attack didn’t kill him. Despite his growing health issues, in 1964 he released a record called “Hello, Dolly!” which reached number 1 on the billboard hot 100 for 22weeks. In doing so he became the oldest person ever to achieve that, he was 62 years, 9 months and 5 days. Eventually he died in his sleep on July 6, 1971 at his home in New York City. He was later buried in Flushing